Thursday, December 1, 2011

Gingrich Proposes Double-fence at the Mexican Border (there's a hashtag for that)

Today Newt Gingrich, who at last week's Republican presidential
debate
said "I'm prepared to take the heat" for declining to endorse
the mass deportation of all 12 million unauthorized U.S. residents,
sought to fend off charges that he is soft on immigration by
joining Michele Bachmann in
pledging to build not one but two fences spanning the entire
border with Mexico. Two is better than one, obviously, but surely
good old American know-how can improve on this plan. Some suggestions via
Twitter:

"Two fences. The first covered in razor blades. The second with
stationery prone to cause paper cuts. Then, a moat of orange
juice." (Radley Balko)
"As a warning to illegal immigrants, we make the fence *out of*
illegal immigrants." (Ditto)
"Put a 1,000 ft tall, ultra-realistic painting of an ocean all
along the border facing south. They'll think we're gone & go
home." (Modeled Behavior)
"Hire Wiley Coyote to draw pictures of tunnel entrances on
outside of stone wall." (Curiouser George)
"Why ANNOUNCE the number of fences? do we want to just SEND our
enemies our plans?" (John Perich)
"Alligators and electricity! Wait. I think that's taken."
(Michael Demmons)